And I think what we saw once again is he's a striver.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009] Reference

He was, in a way, the future: the meritocratic striver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep In the Tweeds] Reference

Nah ... he's just complicated - a striver and a combatant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Klein: I Was "Wrong" To Call McCain An Honorable Man] Reference

Jerry Ford was always a striver, never working an angle, just working.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2006] Reference

So he is very much a product of public school system and as E.J. said, a striver.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2004] Reference

With the striver, however, we always see the wheels turning and sense the hunger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roots of Liberal Condescension] Reference

Explore's film is a fitting tribute to a gifted striver and achiever in his own right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exploring Vancouver With A True Olympian] Reference

You are a striver, someone who pushes herself to excellence, but you are not competitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hate, fear, exclusion and pain.] Reference

The perilous new direction of the slacker-striver genre reduced the role of women to vehicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-30] Reference

He was a street smart striver who talked in the clipped Brooklyn patios of a Coney Island barker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives] Reference

The louts in the slacker-striver comedies should probably lose the girl, too, but most of them don't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-30] Reference

The nation serves as surrogate identity for the striver who, on a daily basis, is forced to march in line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: The China Code: From Robotic Depersonalization to Epic Ambition] Reference

Obama stands in the tradition of our founders, a citizen running for office, not a "professional" striver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inkblot] Reference

Elisabeth Moss is again Emmy nominated, this time for best supporting actress, for her career striver Peggy Olsen.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bradley: Mad Men Returns With "Public Relations" in More Ways Than One: Who IS Don Draper?] Reference

Truman was a marginal middle-class striver who failed in one business venture after another before turning to politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enthusiasts for Hard Power] Reference

But in truth, a President Hillary Clinton would essentially be the same person she's always been: a serious-minded striver.    From Wordnik.com.  [How She Would Govern] Reference

The novel is exhaustive by nature; but the world is inexhaustible; therefore the novel, that Faustian striver, can never attain its desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative Strategies] Reference

Habakkuk, I do judge, is a proper name, though there is some question, because of the composition; and it signifies the "wrestler" or "striver.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

… And in other big-screwen news, Film Forum debuts Frontrunners, a documentary about election time … at striver-stuffed Stuyvesant High School!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wednesday, October 15] Reference

Described by friends as a striver with higher aims, she has been discussed as not just a justice or attorney general but perhaps even a presidential candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano winning over heavyweights with her persona] Reference

The happy slave smiles; the well-trained "lady" smiles; now even the male white collar striver has to keep his lips pulled back in an expression of eager compliance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Ehrenreich: Fake Your Way to the Top!] Reference

Mazzio, however, feels the beating heart of the striver - and, as a result, Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon never drags, even as it offers an important message to audiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon achieves lift-off] Reference

NEW YORK — Eight years ago, Sharif El-Gamal was just another ambitious striver from Brooklyn, casting about for career leads and dreaming of a grander future in real estate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Park51 Developer Sharif El-Gamal Helping Raise Money For Second Mosque In Harlem] Reference

Thou striver, thou deliverer, thou hope of things to be!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference

Sure, it's a great thing that I'm no longer that pretentious striver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morning News] Reference

What will the striver do, to effect an entrance into the Strait Gate?.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Must Labor For Salvation] Reference

I fear I will never be the great lawyer -- but the striver, yes, always.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crisis — Complete] Reference

No ray hope shines out from the inspired pages but for the striver alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Must Labor For Salvation] Reference

Rosty's downfall in '94 opened the door for a certain well-coiffed striver.    From Wordnik.com.  [NBC Chicago -] Reference

Iliad; the one is the boundless striver, the other rests in the established order of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference

Is the world really ready for a dorkier version of Tracy Flick, the relentless striver from "Election"?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Al Pacino was often the firebrand, Barbra Streisand the self-made striver, and Robert De Niro the intense psychopath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

He's completely believable as a middle-aged dad and corporate striver whose entire focus in life is saving his children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

In college, I found myself playing the part of hapless striver to the boyfriend du jour's privileged, self-assured insider.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morning News] Reference

She is a veritable Goddess to the young striver, speaking the word of hope and wisdom, and then turning him back upon himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference